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Across Africa, the worst food crisis since 1985 looms for 50 million
2016-05-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Harvest should be the time for celebrations, weddings and full bellies in southern Malawi. But Christopher Witimani, Lilian Matafle and their seven children and four grandchildren had nothing to celebrate last week as they picked their meagre maize crop. Last years drought, followed by erratic rains, hit the village of Nkhotakota hard. But this year the rains never came and, for a second year running, the family grain store is empty. If they manage their savings carefully and eat just one small...
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Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat
2016-05-20 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Ninety-nine percent of the planet's freshwater ice is locked up in the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps. Now, a growing number of studies are raising the possibility that as those ice sheets melt, sea levels could rise by six feet this century, and far higher in the next, flooding many of the world's populated coastal areas. Last month in Greenland, more than a tenth of the ice sheets surface was melting in the unseasonably warm spring sun, smashing 2010s record for a thaw so early in the year....
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C&C Group open to beer acquisitions as further consolidation looms - Exclusive
2016-05-11 16:57:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
C&C Group has maintained that it remains strongly-placed to participate in the current round of consolidation in the beer industry, despite lining up a sizeable share buyback plan in the coming months.
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EDF reports sales fall as AGM looms
2016-05-10 19:56:11| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
French energy giant EDF reports a fall in sales of 7% in the first quarter in the face of stiff competition and lower energy prices ahead of a crucial shareholder meeting.
Mortgage M&A Looms as Soaring Costs Pinch Nonbank Lenders
2016-05-04 17:26:00| National Real Estate Investor
Prashant Gopal and Heather Perlberg The mortgage upstarts that transformed the industry after the U.S. housing crash are now facing their own shakeout. read more
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